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🗓️ 23 February 2016
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What inspired this series of short mysteries for the curious mind? Mike Rowe reveals the inspiration behind the new podcast.
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0:00.0 | Hey, it's Mike Row with a very brief description of my new podcast called The Way I |
0:11.2 | Heard It. |
0:12.8 | Brief being the operative word, not just for this description, but for the podcast itself, |
0:17.5 | the general goal with the way I heard it was to satisfy two different things that I believe |
0:23.2 | are very much for sale here in the 21st century. |
0:25.9 | A curious mind and a short attention span. |
0:29.1 | I'm cursed with both and I have it on excellent authority that I'm not alone. |
0:33.8 | So I'm not even sure podcast is the right expression to describe what these are. |
0:39.2 | They're very short, five minute stories, mysteries, fundamentally. |
0:44.3 | Sometimes wrapped in biography, sometimes wrapped in pop culture, sometimes wrapped in the |
0:48.8 | history. |
0:49.8 | It didn't learn in your social studies class, but mostly they're mysteries. |
0:53.8 | And if it sounds at all familiar to you, it's probably because you remember Paul Harvey. |
0:58.0 | I certainly do one of the greatest broadcasters in the history of broadcasting for years did |
1:03.6 | a segment called The Rest of the Story. |
1:05.7 | And while I would in no way compare myself to him or imagine for a second that I could |
1:10.6 | ever follow in his gigantic footsteps, I am really interested and always have been in |
1:17.6 | that kind of storytelling. |
1:19.8 | Paul Harvey blazed the way for a lot of other people and the way I heard it is in part |
1:26.2 | and homage to those kinds of narratives, but mostly it's a selfish endeavor. |
1:32.1 | I like doing these. |
1:33.3 | I like researching them. |
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